Tag: Antibiotic resistance
How to train the body’s own cells to combat antibiotic resistance
Zahidul Alam, University of Pennsylvania
Drug-resistant superbugs have threatened human health for decades. The situation is getting worse because of the shortage of new antibiotics....
How scientists are fighting infection-causing biofilms
Nicholas Fitzkee, Mississippi State University
The surfaces people interact with every day may seem rather mundane, but at the molecular scale, there is more activity...
Three reasons the US is not ready for the next pandemic
Christine Crudo Blackburn, Texas A&M University ; Andrew Natsios, Texas A&M University , and Gerald W. Parker, Texas A&M University
One hundred years after...
Bacteria may be powerful weapon against antibiotic resistance
Terence Crofts, Washington University in St Louis
When I was a child, my parents gave me a sweet pink syrup to destroy the bacteria causing...
Why you may not need all those days of antibiotics
Brad Spellberg, University of Southern California
A recent article in the British Medical Journal set off a bit of a firestorm with its claim that...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
